Dirección Federal de Seguridad

The Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Directorate, DFS) was a Mexican intelligence agency. Created in 1947 under Miguel Alemán Valdés with "the duty of preserving the internal stability of Mexico against all forms subversion and terrorist threats",^[1] it was merged into the Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (CISEN) in 1985 after the murder of the U.S. agent Enrique Camarena Salazar.^[2]

According to Peter Dale Scott, the DFS was in part a CIA creation, and "the CIA's closest government allies were for years in the DFS". DFS badges, "handed out to top-level Mexican drug-traffickers, have been labelled by DEA agents a virtual 'license to traffic'".^[3] Scott also said, "The Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nazar Haro, a CIA asset."^[3]

Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía Tellezgirón was murdered by members of the DFS for reporting on Mexican high-ranking officials corruption, and their relation with the CIA and Drug Trafficking.

Heads

• Marcelino Inurreta de la Fuente (1947–1952)
• Leandro Castillo Venegas (1952–1958)
• Gilberto Suárez Torres (1958–1959)
• Manuel Rangel Escamilla (1959–1964)
• Fernando Gutierrez Barrios (1965–1970)
• Luis de la Barrera Moreno (1970–1977)
• Javier García Paniagua (1977–1978)
• Miguel Nazar Haro (1978–1982)
• José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez (1982–1985)
• Pablo González Ruelas (1985)^[4]

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